Post by Zelda Knite on Jun 22, 2011 21:56:56 GMT -6
Lost and scared.
I've had my entire world shifted upside down.
I thought I had done enough to earn some respect...
I thought I had earned my place.
Apparently I was wrong again. Everything I did meant nothing.
I was just used for the money, ratings, publicity, fame.
When it came time for me to be rewarded for all I had done, I was shot down.
Thrown away.
Forgotten.
And the worst part is, people saw it as an opportunity for themselves.
A chance to further their career, a golden ticket to take over where I had left off.
I don't want to go, but I can't take feeling under appreciated, I can't take feeling like all my hard work is for nothing. Every time I win it's because I'm Adam's sister and I hear the rumblings in the back about how I'm too pushed how the shows are too centered around me, I hear the musings of how I hold people down, and nobody gets a fair shot with me on board. Then I have Leonard basically telling me that I'm not that important to him, that he doesn't want to sign me to my contract demands because everything I endured, the dislocated shoulder the ridicule of joining the Young Guns, giving everything I had to just wrestle Lance Ryan to a draw, the concussion from the hands of Cleopatra and her team of Zelda killers, all the hard work and career shortening moments like jumping off the cage in the end.... didn't mean anything to the person who was milking me for everything I was worth...
The saddest part though... that would have been an easy pill to swallow.
It was hearing my peers in the back, saying they wished I was gone...
Hearing them say I was overrated...
Jealousy or not... it hurt.
And I don't want to deal with it anymore.
I don't know what to do, I wish I could make everybody happy.
But all I could do was be myself and keep trying harder and harder to win,
all I could do was be me.
Maybe I'll be appreciated elsewhere?
I don't know... I'm not sure... I can't even decide what to do next...
It's hard... everything always flip around on me.. screws up my life...
but not this time, no, no matter what... I'm going to be happy.
Even if I have to walk away to do so, and it'll be my decision...
If only I knew it was the right choice.
“Ok.. here we are....”
“Zelda... I don't know what to say.”
We are whisked back to see Zelda and Rob standing in the middle of a cemetary filled with ordinary marble and concrete headstones stretching the length of the small field surrounded by a black iron rod fence. Zelda stands in front of the grave with the large angel statue on top of a podium that has the bronze adorning it's face, reading “Mary Knight” across it.
“I've never brought anybody here before Rob, it used to be where I ran off to when Henry was drunker than normal and got too touchy for me... He didn't care, he'd pass out and forget why he was mad or... “attracted” to me eventually. I haven't been back to “talk” to my mom since Adam took me away from here.”
“That's because that isn't your life anymore... and it never will be now that I'm with you.”
“I know Rob... you'll always protect me and you'll always be there to help distract me from the pain... but it's just...”
Zelda bites down on her bottom lip, not playfully as she normally does, but hard as if she was distracting one set of feelings from another by causing herself pain. She steps forward and goes down a knee where she lowers her head and clutches the small sterling silver cross pendant that is always tied around her neck with a strip of black leather. She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath, her lips move as if she's mumbling something that only she can hear. After suddenly looking up, she works up the composure to continue.
“I just hate it Rob! I hate that I never got a chance to know her... that she never got a chance to see me grow up... she never got a chance to hold me! Never did my hair, bought me cute little sun dresses and yell at me for getting them muddy... nothing... not a single thing, she didn't even know my name.”
Rob puts his arm over Zelda’s shoulder, stopping her before she can get too emotionally lost in the thoughts that are currently flooding through her head. She takes a deep breath to catch herself before she breaks down in tears.
“I never really had anybody, and now I don't know what to do... everything is changing and I've come so far, I just wish I could ask her advice...”
Rob doesn’t say anything, he just continues to be there beside her as he lets her say what she’s wanting to say, calmly and strong, he’s here to comfort her afterall.
“I wonder if she’d be proud of me, if she’d agree with my choices... I wonder what she would just think about things, everything... anything. I feel so lost sometimes, like I'm trying to do it all alone.”
“I'm here.”
“I know, and I'm so happy to be with you, to be getting married to you, just being around you, but I just felt I needed to show you, so you'd know where I came from, see it for yourself... why I'm so crazy...”
“You're not crazy, what you are is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me... and no matter what happened, or what's in our future, I'm here with you, for the rest of our lives.”
She doesn't say anything now, instead she just lets go of the cross pendant and a stands back up holding back the tears. She puts her arms around Rob and embraces him tightly against herself, allowing a few tears to drop and stain his shirt while he wraps his arms around her and returns the tight lock. A few seconds later, Zelda puts her hands on his chest and pushes away trying again to compose herself.
“We should go...”
“You sure?”
“Yeah, I'm just going to cry more the longer we stay here and everybody who is watching the mysterious camera is going to laugh at me and call me Spike Kane or something...-small laugh-”
“Well we better hurry up and get the hell out of here then, we wouldn't want that at all.”
Rob smiles before he turns around to head back out of the small secluded cemetary, but Zelda doesn't immediately follow, instead she walks over to the base of the statue and puts her hand against it, she looks up at the angel glaring over the grave and closes her eyes and takes a deep breath.
“Please be proud of me....”
....I always am, sweetheart....
Zelda looks around at the wind rustling through the branches of the trees, she turns around and follows Rob, feeling a little comforted. The scene fades to black and we can now cue the jerkoffs who want to try and get some cheap heel heat by using this against Zelda and trying to show how edgey they are because they can mock a personal moment, but we don't care... since they're just assholes anyway.
Oh Steven...
What's your excuse for acting like an A-Hole this time?
There is ALWAYS an excuse for you... you'll be hanging around acting like a great guy being one of the most popular men on the roster living the high life, riding your wave high into the air and then something happens that reminds everybody... oh yeah, that guy is an a-hole, and then everything is right in the world or something, I don't know, nor do I particularly care anymore. We're supposed to be friends, me and you, Crystal and Rob, all of us combined, EMF and Infamous we're supposed to be the ones who are ruling this country so Trent Helms can get on his blog and complain about us holding down all the other talent and instead here we are at each other's throats because you can't stand the fact that Rob has taken your spot as the top dick in the company.
I really hope it was worth it, when you've lost ANOTHER world title match, when you walk out of ANOTHER pay per view without the NCW title over your shoulder I honestly hope you look back, see where you went wrong and finally freaking understand why you're able to keep climbing to the top but you can't finish what you started. And seeing as how you can't keep a girlfriend, I'd say that is a pretty standard problem with you so maybe it'll apply more to than just wrestling, which would be good and you can give me and Rob a big thank you later and a tearful hug where you promise to change, and just like you did at your Sex Addicts anonymous meeting, you'll probably grab my butt and give me one of those patented Steve Awesome seductive winks, since that's just how you roll right?
You've come so close so many times to finally recapturing that gold that Trent just handed to you, yet you just keep coming up short, that's literally what she said, and you just don't understand it do you? You win the Road to the Gold tournament and fail against Kyle. You come in second place at the Riot the first year and third I believe the next, you had the Coliseum won until Trent came and took you out, every time you have that title in your hands, something stops you. How many times must you fail until you realize that you just don't have what it takes, you're not the multi-time world champion who can carry the company on his back wrestler, you're the showman, you're the guy everybody loves but never gets to the top, you're the guy who is flashy and energetic, you get your cheers then you go home while the people with real talent bring home the gold. You had your one shining moment to make everybody happy and now you've been played out, you're not reliable enough to stay at the peak.
You wonder why Kelly chose Adam and left you crying like a baby in the ring vowing revenge and beating up a 19 year old girl with a dislocated shoulder? It's for the same reason, you're not anything substantial, you're the one trick pony, the kid in school who would eat anything to get anybody to pay attention, the indy wrestler who wraps himself in barbwire and throws himself from the 30 foot cage through the double stack of flaming tables wrapped in glass... sure it's pretty cool the first thirty times you see it, but after a while, you know there is just so many times before you start yawning and wanting something new. You got the abs you can bounce quarters off of, you got the smartalic remarks and you got the family guy style cut scenes, after that... nothing. You're the Bowser of NCW, you can capture the princess, you can't ever keep her and nothing more, you've done the same thing in every single game and in the next sequel we'll know what to expect... you'll do it well... but it won't be any freaking surprise.
Have fun losing again...
Maybe this time you can blame it on me.
It wasn't fair, Rob had Zelda on his side.
Point your little finger around like you always do...
It was Kelly who made you turn into a jerk.
It was Adam who made you into a bearded manic depressive.
It was Rob Diamond taking your spot that forced you to abandon him.
You couldn't be happy for your friend... you had to have more...
and now you're walking away with nothing.
But that's ok...
You should be pretty used to that by now.
Rob and Zelda lay in bed in their completely foreign hotel room with it's crazy customs that aren't important right now. Zelda has her head comfortable placed on his chest with her left arm stretching over him and meeting his hand in a clasp as he leans against the headboard catching some late night television, it's always good to see a couple doing some naked spooning after making love in these promos right? Again, not important, what is however what happens next when Rob puts his other hand on her bare shoulder and gently rubs it making his “bride to be” smile and causing her to look up and wonder what is up. She seems surprised to see him looking remorseful...
“Zelda... I'm sorry I got you super kicked, I shouldn't have been so stupid.”
“-laughs- Is that what is bugging you?”
“Yeah.”
“After what you did for me, going to Angel and at least getting me a chance to defend my belt? I believe it's okay Rob, I promise.”
“No it's not, I shouldn't have been so selfish, I got carried away again and wasn't thinking. I should have made sure you were safe and got you away from there.”
“-laughs again- Man, you know if there was some mysterious hidden camera that followed us around and recorded our most private moments, people would be thinking you were breaking character right there.”
“I wouldn't give a damn about what those mysterious viewers on the outside of the mysterious camera would think about it... I love you, I'm not going to try and act tough around you, I want you to know how I feel, just like you do with me... no secrets, no hiding anything.”
Zelda smiles wide, she takes her arms and squeezes tighter against him, pressing her body to him as if they were glued together and closes her eyes. He can't help but grin happily with the feeling of her body against his, he grabs the remote and flips the TV off and lets his body slip down further to where his head is laying on the pillow, Zelda leans up and gives him a quick kiss before resting her head on his chest again.
“Did you mean that? The part about not hiding anything?”
“Of course.”
“Can I ask you a question then?”
“Other than that? Sure.”
“If we aren't hiding anything, how come I've never met your family?”
“You've met them.”
“No I haven't, not really. I had Chris's hand around my neck as he tried to break me in half, and I was at Shelly's wedding because I went with Kyle and that's about it. I've never met your mom and dad, I feel like... maybe you're hiding something from me? Or maybe you're just worried that I'm not good enough....”
“Hey, don't you dare talk like that, you're the greatest girl anybody could ever hope for and I'm proud to be known as the future Mr. Zelda Knite.”
The goofy smile that creeps up on Rob's face as he says this makes it so that Zelda can't help but giggle and bite down on her bottom lip cutely while blushing slightly. She however isn't letting this drop right there.
“Thank you... but Rob... I still want to meet them, I'm going to be a family member soon right?”
“But they're jerks.”
“I don't care, I can handle it”
“I don't think it's a good idea...”
“Fine...”
“Well what about your family?”
“Who do you want to meet? Adam, Xander, Gib, Kelly? You know everybody in mine Rob, or do you really want me to introduce you to the man who beat and humiliated me for ten years of my life?”
“I'm just....”
“Nevermind Rob...”
Zelda turns over, grabs the pillow and lays it between her arms as she curls up with it away from Rob, obviously in the midst of a tiny hissyfit. Rob puts his hand on her shoulder again but she brushes it off.
“This means a lot to you doesn't it?”
“Not if it doesn't to you...”
“Z, don't get all passive aggressive on me, if this is something you want, then I'm going to do it for you. I promise.”
Zelda turns around, and she's obviously excited about getting her way, almost to the point where she even seems a bit shocked at the news that he's going to do it for her. Her smile is wide her bright white teeth are shinning and she looks at him happily, and of course this is enough to make Rob smile as well.
“Thank you so much.”
“Anything for you.”
We fade out as Zelda and Rob lean in for a kiss and we fade to black.
Thanks to EMF NCW now has a Starlets tag team title.
Thanks to what we did NCW has even more reason to push the women to new heights.
Me and Crystal did that together.
It was something we wanted, everybody thought we were just being flirty and cute because we were airheads and liked to use our feminine charms to hypnotize the fans and didn't realize we wanted to make the entire company better as a whole. Then however, Crystal just had to get greedy. She just had to want more. The second I'm seemingly out of the picture, the moment that I walk away, she wants to go and take my belt, the title I made famous, the championship that I owned for almost a year and claim it for herself and say she's doing it in my honor!? Come on, I might be comparable to Clyde in the Pacman maze at times, but I'm not freaking blind here.
The day you signed here Crystal you've been chasing me, the day you came to NCW you talked about being at my level, you talked about beating me and how you wanted to climb the ladder to where I was, you want me to suddenly believe that you put all that behind you and now you're all about our team, and you're all about doing what you did for me? You goomba, what you wanted was to be the World champion, what you wanted was to get the belt, have Steve at your side hopefully helping him screw Rob at the title so you and him could be the world champion couple... just like me and Rob.
You want everything I have, you always did. You were a stupid slut as a kid and got knocked up and now with an 8 year old kid you're trying to live my life since you never really had a chance to because you were too busy with your l legs spread in the back of Cadillac with 22's. Then you want to say that I don't have my mind on wrestling and that I'm slipping? Hey at least I'm not trying to juggle the incredible responsibilities of being a mother, professional wrestler, professional adulterer, and drunk all at the same time. The only reason you didn't want me to get pregnant and marry Rob was because you knew it would make me happy and I would leave NCW for about 10 months and we'd have to vacate our titles, you didn't care that it was what I wanted and that it would make me happy, you just wanted your partner so you could stay on the top of the rankins while I carried your butt every week!
And now, it's come to this. You finally get that chance to face me, you finally get your chance at winning this belt again, ever since you failed against Trish Newborn, you can finally gain the title that everybody has dreamed of taken from me and be the one to crow about doing so.
So what do you have planned Crystal? I know you, you have the big ace up your sleeve right? The one thing you're going to say that is completely going to destroy me? Isn't that what you always talk about? Having the secret words that will completely obliterate me and my entire argument and just make me look like a complete n00b? You're just going to step out here and pwn me right, and nobody will ever remember why I was so awesome to begin with. Except for the fact that your big “pwnage” is going to be nothing more than you pulling your best parrot routine and trying to dissect everything I say to you and use it against me.
Well guess what, I'm not going to let you, you won't do your “play off me” shtick that you love doing so much, you've told me you're at your best when you have something to bounce off of, well you're not getting the pleasure this time because I'm totally calling you out on it so you can't! You want to promo on me, you want to try and make some claims about being perfect, you want to talk to your stupid little mirror and ask it if everything I said was true and if you're really the fairest of them all, but yet in reality you're just going to take everything I've just said and rebuttal it, and possibly throw in book of Crystal-isms for some added flare...
Here's some advice for you friend...
Maybe if you want to take my belt...
You should try something a little different...
Something a little less predictable...
I'd start with winning a match on your own...
Zelda and Rob stand in front of the large doors of your ordinary looking house, Zelda in a nice dress, makeup on, diamond ear rings, her hair all fixed up and curled. She looks absolutely stunning even while she seems to be hyperventilating and about to faint. Rob laughs and shakes his head, he puts his hand on the small of her back and sighs before ringing the door bell. The door slowly opens, we don't get to see anything, but we can hear what is going on.
“Holy... is that her? She's even prettier in person, and those eyes... I've never seen such a beautiful color of blue... how did you somebody like you land such a cutey?”
“Look at that rock on her finger...I bet that explains it, must have spent a couple years of pay on that huh son?”
Rob shakes his head in brief annoyance but doesn't say a word.
“Wow dear you look stunning, all for meeting us?”
“Thank you, yes... I wanted to make a good impression.”
“That accent is adorable!”
“Oh wow, it's even better than it is on TV! Anybody ever tell you, you sound just like...”
“If you say Sandy off Sponge Bob I will take her home right now...”
“Never mind then.”
“Dammmit Dad.”
“Oh hush Rob, don't talk to your father that way. Now you two come on in.”
We still can't see what's going on behind the door, since I'm totally leaving that as a surprise for the Rob Diamond promo, but hey you can wait. Anyway, Rob's parents wave them into the house and Zelda as soon as they turn around begins to breathe heavily again. Rob laughs at her, he grabs her arm and turns her to facing him, he holds her hands in his and looks her in the eyes.
“You ok? You sure you want to go through with this.”
“Yes, I'm just nervous, I hope they like me.”
“Their opinion doesn't matter to me... I want you, I have you, and that's all I care about.”
“Rob...”
Zelda stops mid sentence, can't control herself and grabs Rob and lays a huge passionate kiss on him, he grabs her hips and holds her tight and it takes the two several moments before they finally break their kiss, Zelda smiles, bites the bottom lip and sheepishly looks at the man she loves.
“Thank you... I love you.”
“and I love you.”
They smile before heading into the house and we fade out for the final time, leaving nothing but a black screen after Zelda goes to meet her future, happily with Rob's hand in hers... and she wouldn't have it any other way.
No matter what you two do...
You'll never be us.
You'll never have what we have.
World Champions...
In love.
Who want the other to be happy...
Who care about each other more than anything in the world.
Steve would drop you Crystal for the World title in a heart beat...
hell he married the thing.
And Crystal would kick you to the curb Steve if it meant she'd have a bit more fame.
No, you could never be us, no matter how hard you try.
This is our legend...
This is our happy ending..
our happily ever after...
and we're not giving it to you.
I've had my entire world shifted upside down.
I thought I had done enough to earn some respect...
I thought I had earned my place.
Apparently I was wrong again. Everything I did meant nothing.
I was just used for the money, ratings, publicity, fame.
When it came time for me to be rewarded for all I had done, I was shot down.
Thrown away.
Forgotten.
And the worst part is, people saw it as an opportunity for themselves.
A chance to further their career, a golden ticket to take over where I had left off.
I don't want to go, but I can't take feeling under appreciated, I can't take feeling like all my hard work is for nothing. Every time I win it's because I'm Adam's sister and I hear the rumblings in the back about how I'm too pushed how the shows are too centered around me, I hear the musings of how I hold people down, and nobody gets a fair shot with me on board. Then I have Leonard basically telling me that I'm not that important to him, that he doesn't want to sign me to my contract demands because everything I endured, the dislocated shoulder the ridicule of joining the Young Guns, giving everything I had to just wrestle Lance Ryan to a draw, the concussion from the hands of Cleopatra and her team of Zelda killers, all the hard work and career shortening moments like jumping off the cage in the end.... didn't mean anything to the person who was milking me for everything I was worth...
The saddest part though... that would have been an easy pill to swallow.
It was hearing my peers in the back, saying they wished I was gone...
Hearing them say I was overrated...
Jealousy or not... it hurt.
And I don't want to deal with it anymore.
I don't know what to do, I wish I could make everybody happy.
But all I could do was be myself and keep trying harder and harder to win,
all I could do was be me.
Maybe I'll be appreciated elsewhere?
I don't know... I'm not sure... I can't even decide what to do next...
It's hard... everything always flip around on me.. screws up my life...
but not this time, no, no matter what... I'm going to be happy.
Even if I have to walk away to do so, and it'll be my decision...
If only I knew it was the right choice.
“Ok.. here we are....”
“Zelda... I don't know what to say.”
We are whisked back to see Zelda and Rob standing in the middle of a cemetary filled with ordinary marble and concrete headstones stretching the length of the small field surrounded by a black iron rod fence. Zelda stands in front of the grave with the large angel statue on top of a podium that has the bronze adorning it's face, reading “Mary Knight” across it.
“I've never brought anybody here before Rob, it used to be where I ran off to when Henry was drunker than normal and got too touchy for me... He didn't care, he'd pass out and forget why he was mad or... “attracted” to me eventually. I haven't been back to “talk” to my mom since Adam took me away from here.”
“That's because that isn't your life anymore... and it never will be now that I'm with you.”
“I know Rob... you'll always protect me and you'll always be there to help distract me from the pain... but it's just...”
Zelda bites down on her bottom lip, not playfully as she normally does, but hard as if she was distracting one set of feelings from another by causing herself pain. She steps forward and goes down a knee where she lowers her head and clutches the small sterling silver cross pendant that is always tied around her neck with a strip of black leather. She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath, her lips move as if she's mumbling something that only she can hear. After suddenly looking up, she works up the composure to continue.
“I just hate it Rob! I hate that I never got a chance to know her... that she never got a chance to see me grow up... she never got a chance to hold me! Never did my hair, bought me cute little sun dresses and yell at me for getting them muddy... nothing... not a single thing, she didn't even know my name.”
Rob puts his arm over Zelda’s shoulder, stopping her before she can get too emotionally lost in the thoughts that are currently flooding through her head. She takes a deep breath to catch herself before she breaks down in tears.
“I never really had anybody, and now I don't know what to do... everything is changing and I've come so far, I just wish I could ask her advice...”
Rob doesn’t say anything, he just continues to be there beside her as he lets her say what she’s wanting to say, calmly and strong, he’s here to comfort her afterall.
“I wonder if she’d be proud of me, if she’d agree with my choices... I wonder what she would just think about things, everything... anything. I feel so lost sometimes, like I'm trying to do it all alone.”
“I'm here.”
“I know, and I'm so happy to be with you, to be getting married to you, just being around you, but I just felt I needed to show you, so you'd know where I came from, see it for yourself... why I'm so crazy...”
“You're not crazy, what you are is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me... and no matter what happened, or what's in our future, I'm here with you, for the rest of our lives.”
She doesn't say anything now, instead she just lets go of the cross pendant and a stands back up holding back the tears. She puts her arms around Rob and embraces him tightly against herself, allowing a few tears to drop and stain his shirt while he wraps his arms around her and returns the tight lock. A few seconds later, Zelda puts her hands on his chest and pushes away trying again to compose herself.
“We should go...”
“You sure?”
“Yeah, I'm just going to cry more the longer we stay here and everybody who is watching the mysterious camera is going to laugh at me and call me Spike Kane or something...-small laugh-”
“Well we better hurry up and get the hell out of here then, we wouldn't want that at all.”
Rob smiles before he turns around to head back out of the small secluded cemetary, but Zelda doesn't immediately follow, instead she walks over to the base of the statue and puts her hand against it, she looks up at the angel glaring over the grave and closes her eyes and takes a deep breath.
“Please be proud of me....”
....I always am, sweetheart....
Zelda looks around at the wind rustling through the branches of the trees, she turns around and follows Rob, feeling a little comforted. The scene fades to black and we can now cue the jerkoffs who want to try and get some cheap heel heat by using this against Zelda and trying to show how edgey they are because they can mock a personal moment, but we don't care... since they're just assholes anyway.
Oh Steven...
What's your excuse for acting like an A-Hole this time?
There is ALWAYS an excuse for you... you'll be hanging around acting like a great guy being one of the most popular men on the roster living the high life, riding your wave high into the air and then something happens that reminds everybody... oh yeah, that guy is an a-hole, and then everything is right in the world or something, I don't know, nor do I particularly care anymore. We're supposed to be friends, me and you, Crystal and Rob, all of us combined, EMF and Infamous we're supposed to be the ones who are ruling this country so Trent Helms can get on his blog and complain about us holding down all the other talent and instead here we are at each other's throats because you can't stand the fact that Rob has taken your spot as the top dick in the company.
I really hope it was worth it, when you've lost ANOTHER world title match, when you walk out of ANOTHER pay per view without the NCW title over your shoulder I honestly hope you look back, see where you went wrong and finally freaking understand why you're able to keep climbing to the top but you can't finish what you started. And seeing as how you can't keep a girlfriend, I'd say that is a pretty standard problem with you so maybe it'll apply more to than just wrestling, which would be good and you can give me and Rob a big thank you later and a tearful hug where you promise to change, and just like you did at your Sex Addicts anonymous meeting, you'll probably grab my butt and give me one of those patented Steve Awesome seductive winks, since that's just how you roll right?
You've come so close so many times to finally recapturing that gold that Trent just handed to you, yet you just keep coming up short, that's literally what she said, and you just don't understand it do you? You win the Road to the Gold tournament and fail against Kyle. You come in second place at the Riot the first year and third I believe the next, you had the Coliseum won until Trent came and took you out, every time you have that title in your hands, something stops you. How many times must you fail until you realize that you just don't have what it takes, you're not the multi-time world champion who can carry the company on his back wrestler, you're the showman, you're the guy everybody loves but never gets to the top, you're the guy who is flashy and energetic, you get your cheers then you go home while the people with real talent bring home the gold. You had your one shining moment to make everybody happy and now you've been played out, you're not reliable enough to stay at the peak.
You wonder why Kelly chose Adam and left you crying like a baby in the ring vowing revenge and beating up a 19 year old girl with a dislocated shoulder? It's for the same reason, you're not anything substantial, you're the one trick pony, the kid in school who would eat anything to get anybody to pay attention, the indy wrestler who wraps himself in barbwire and throws himself from the 30 foot cage through the double stack of flaming tables wrapped in glass... sure it's pretty cool the first thirty times you see it, but after a while, you know there is just so many times before you start yawning and wanting something new. You got the abs you can bounce quarters off of, you got the smartalic remarks and you got the family guy style cut scenes, after that... nothing. You're the Bowser of NCW, you can capture the princess, you can't ever keep her and nothing more, you've done the same thing in every single game and in the next sequel we'll know what to expect... you'll do it well... but it won't be any freaking surprise.
Have fun losing again...
Maybe this time you can blame it on me.
It wasn't fair, Rob had Zelda on his side.
Point your little finger around like you always do...
It was Kelly who made you turn into a jerk.
It was Adam who made you into a bearded manic depressive.
It was Rob Diamond taking your spot that forced you to abandon him.
You couldn't be happy for your friend... you had to have more...
and now you're walking away with nothing.
But that's ok...
You should be pretty used to that by now.
Rob and Zelda lay in bed in their completely foreign hotel room with it's crazy customs that aren't important right now. Zelda has her head comfortable placed on his chest with her left arm stretching over him and meeting his hand in a clasp as he leans against the headboard catching some late night television, it's always good to see a couple doing some naked spooning after making love in these promos right? Again, not important, what is however what happens next when Rob puts his other hand on her bare shoulder and gently rubs it making his “bride to be” smile and causing her to look up and wonder what is up. She seems surprised to see him looking remorseful...
“Zelda... I'm sorry I got you super kicked, I shouldn't have been so stupid.”
“-laughs- Is that what is bugging you?”
“Yeah.”
“After what you did for me, going to Angel and at least getting me a chance to defend my belt? I believe it's okay Rob, I promise.”
“No it's not, I shouldn't have been so selfish, I got carried away again and wasn't thinking. I should have made sure you were safe and got you away from there.”
“-laughs again- Man, you know if there was some mysterious hidden camera that followed us around and recorded our most private moments, people would be thinking you were breaking character right there.”
“I wouldn't give a damn about what those mysterious viewers on the outside of the mysterious camera would think about it... I love you, I'm not going to try and act tough around you, I want you to know how I feel, just like you do with me... no secrets, no hiding anything.”
Zelda smiles wide, she takes her arms and squeezes tighter against him, pressing her body to him as if they were glued together and closes her eyes. He can't help but grin happily with the feeling of her body against his, he grabs the remote and flips the TV off and lets his body slip down further to where his head is laying on the pillow, Zelda leans up and gives him a quick kiss before resting her head on his chest again.
“Did you mean that? The part about not hiding anything?”
“Of course.”
“Can I ask you a question then?”
“Other than that? Sure.”
“If we aren't hiding anything, how come I've never met your family?”
“You've met them.”
“No I haven't, not really. I had Chris's hand around my neck as he tried to break me in half, and I was at Shelly's wedding because I went with Kyle and that's about it. I've never met your mom and dad, I feel like... maybe you're hiding something from me? Or maybe you're just worried that I'm not good enough....”
“Hey, don't you dare talk like that, you're the greatest girl anybody could ever hope for and I'm proud to be known as the future Mr. Zelda Knite.”
The goofy smile that creeps up on Rob's face as he says this makes it so that Zelda can't help but giggle and bite down on her bottom lip cutely while blushing slightly. She however isn't letting this drop right there.
“Thank you... but Rob... I still want to meet them, I'm going to be a family member soon right?”
“But they're jerks.”
“I don't care, I can handle it”
“I don't think it's a good idea...”
“Fine...”
“Well what about your family?”
“Who do you want to meet? Adam, Xander, Gib, Kelly? You know everybody in mine Rob, or do you really want me to introduce you to the man who beat and humiliated me for ten years of my life?”
“I'm just....”
“Nevermind Rob...”
Zelda turns over, grabs the pillow and lays it between her arms as she curls up with it away from Rob, obviously in the midst of a tiny hissyfit. Rob puts his hand on her shoulder again but she brushes it off.
“This means a lot to you doesn't it?”
“Not if it doesn't to you...”
“Z, don't get all passive aggressive on me, if this is something you want, then I'm going to do it for you. I promise.”
Zelda turns around, and she's obviously excited about getting her way, almost to the point where she even seems a bit shocked at the news that he's going to do it for her. Her smile is wide her bright white teeth are shinning and she looks at him happily, and of course this is enough to make Rob smile as well.
“Thank you so much.”
“Anything for you.”
We fade out as Zelda and Rob lean in for a kiss and we fade to black.
Thanks to EMF NCW now has a Starlets tag team title.
Thanks to what we did NCW has even more reason to push the women to new heights.
Me and Crystal did that together.
It was something we wanted, everybody thought we were just being flirty and cute because we were airheads and liked to use our feminine charms to hypnotize the fans and didn't realize we wanted to make the entire company better as a whole. Then however, Crystal just had to get greedy. She just had to want more. The second I'm seemingly out of the picture, the moment that I walk away, she wants to go and take my belt, the title I made famous, the championship that I owned for almost a year and claim it for herself and say she's doing it in my honor!? Come on, I might be comparable to Clyde in the Pacman maze at times, but I'm not freaking blind here.
The day you signed here Crystal you've been chasing me, the day you came to NCW you talked about being at my level, you talked about beating me and how you wanted to climb the ladder to where I was, you want me to suddenly believe that you put all that behind you and now you're all about our team, and you're all about doing what you did for me? You goomba, what you wanted was to be the World champion, what you wanted was to get the belt, have Steve at your side hopefully helping him screw Rob at the title so you and him could be the world champion couple... just like me and Rob.
You want everything I have, you always did. You were a stupid slut as a kid and got knocked up and now with an 8 year old kid you're trying to live my life since you never really had a chance to because you were too busy with your l legs spread in the back of Cadillac with 22's. Then you want to say that I don't have my mind on wrestling and that I'm slipping? Hey at least I'm not trying to juggle the incredible responsibilities of being a mother, professional wrestler, professional adulterer, and drunk all at the same time. The only reason you didn't want me to get pregnant and marry Rob was because you knew it would make me happy and I would leave NCW for about 10 months and we'd have to vacate our titles, you didn't care that it was what I wanted and that it would make me happy, you just wanted your partner so you could stay on the top of the rankins while I carried your butt every week!
And now, it's come to this. You finally get that chance to face me, you finally get your chance at winning this belt again, ever since you failed against Trish Newborn, you can finally gain the title that everybody has dreamed of taken from me and be the one to crow about doing so.
So what do you have planned Crystal? I know you, you have the big ace up your sleeve right? The one thing you're going to say that is completely going to destroy me? Isn't that what you always talk about? Having the secret words that will completely obliterate me and my entire argument and just make me look like a complete n00b? You're just going to step out here and pwn me right, and nobody will ever remember why I was so awesome to begin with. Except for the fact that your big “pwnage” is going to be nothing more than you pulling your best parrot routine and trying to dissect everything I say to you and use it against me.
Well guess what, I'm not going to let you, you won't do your “play off me” shtick that you love doing so much, you've told me you're at your best when you have something to bounce off of, well you're not getting the pleasure this time because I'm totally calling you out on it so you can't! You want to promo on me, you want to try and make some claims about being perfect, you want to talk to your stupid little mirror and ask it if everything I said was true and if you're really the fairest of them all, but yet in reality you're just going to take everything I've just said and rebuttal it, and possibly throw in book of Crystal-isms for some added flare...
Here's some advice for you friend...
Maybe if you want to take my belt...
You should try something a little different...
Something a little less predictable...
I'd start with winning a match on your own...
Zelda and Rob stand in front of the large doors of your ordinary looking house, Zelda in a nice dress, makeup on, diamond ear rings, her hair all fixed up and curled. She looks absolutely stunning even while she seems to be hyperventilating and about to faint. Rob laughs and shakes his head, he puts his hand on the small of her back and sighs before ringing the door bell. The door slowly opens, we don't get to see anything, but we can hear what is going on.
“Holy... is that her? She's even prettier in person, and those eyes... I've never seen such a beautiful color of blue... how did you somebody like you land such a cutey?”
“Look at that rock on her finger...I bet that explains it, must have spent a couple years of pay on that huh son?”
Rob shakes his head in brief annoyance but doesn't say a word.
“Wow dear you look stunning, all for meeting us?”
“Thank you, yes... I wanted to make a good impression.”
“That accent is adorable!”
“Oh wow, it's even better than it is on TV! Anybody ever tell you, you sound just like...”
“If you say Sandy off Sponge Bob I will take her home right now...”
“Never mind then.”
“Dammmit Dad.”
“Oh hush Rob, don't talk to your father that way. Now you two come on in.”
We still can't see what's going on behind the door, since I'm totally leaving that as a surprise for the Rob Diamond promo, but hey you can wait. Anyway, Rob's parents wave them into the house and Zelda as soon as they turn around begins to breathe heavily again. Rob laughs at her, he grabs her arm and turns her to facing him, he holds her hands in his and looks her in the eyes.
“You ok? You sure you want to go through with this.”
“Yes, I'm just nervous, I hope they like me.”
“Their opinion doesn't matter to me... I want you, I have you, and that's all I care about.”
“Rob...”
Zelda stops mid sentence, can't control herself and grabs Rob and lays a huge passionate kiss on him, he grabs her hips and holds her tight and it takes the two several moments before they finally break their kiss, Zelda smiles, bites the bottom lip and sheepishly looks at the man she loves.
“Thank you... I love you.”
“and I love you.”
They smile before heading into the house and we fade out for the final time, leaving nothing but a black screen after Zelda goes to meet her future, happily with Rob's hand in hers... and she wouldn't have it any other way.
No matter what you two do...
You'll never be us.
You'll never have what we have.
World Champions...
In love.
Who want the other to be happy...
Who care about each other more than anything in the world.
Steve would drop you Crystal for the World title in a heart beat...
hell he married the thing.
And Crystal would kick you to the curb Steve if it meant she'd have a bit more fame.
No, you could never be us, no matter how hard you try.
This is our legend...
This is our happy ending..
our happily ever after...
and we're not giving it to you.